Triple

T4909082
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harold H. Burton E110186 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Selma Florence Smith
Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
 E506959 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Selma Florence Smith | Statement: [Harold H. Burton, spouse, Selma Florence Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Selma Florence Smith
Context triple: [Harold H. Burton, spouse, Selma Florence Smith]
  • A. Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
  • B. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • C. Edna Mae McCauley
    Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
  • D. Mildred Thompson
    Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
  • E. Evelyn Williams McKissick
    Evelyn Williams McKissick was the wife of prominent civil rights leader Floyd McKissick and a supportive figure in his legal and activist career.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Selma Florence Smith
Triple: [Harold H. Burton, spouse, Selma Florence Smith]
Generated description
Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Selma Florence Smith
Target entity description: Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • A. Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
  • B. Mary McBride Smith
    Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
  • C. Edna Mae McCauley
    Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
  • D. Mildred Thompson
    Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
  • E. Evelyn Williams McKissick
    Evelyn Williams McKissick was the wife of prominent civil rights leader Floyd McKissick and a supportive figure in his legal and activist career.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69bd44132b94819088522d92beaadc78 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e765094819099481f4f2dd7c47d completed March 20, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69befe46b4d081908597c79135415909 completed March 21, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beff0dda548190831d34282afa9b8e completed March 21, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beff6890f4819088cb053bcdb4f8a1 completed March 21, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:29 p.m.